>Show us the code that's setting up %header.

Which code would that be? I think I posted the code that produces the %09. The only thing I didn't include was the part of the code that creates the html form with default values from the DBM file, but that part is just opening the DBM, reading the values into variables, and setting the default values of the html form to these variables. I open the database and read in as follows:

dbmopen(%synusers,"synusers",0666) || die "Can't open synusers DBM fil
+e\n";
    #search database entries
    while (($key, $value) = each(%synusers)){
        if (index($key,$fields{'alumnamelogin'})!=-1){
             ($alumemail, $emailpub, $alumsnail1, $snail1pub, $alumsna
+il2, $snail2pub, $alumsnail3, $snail3pub, 
            $phone, $phonepub, $alumyears, $yearspub, $comment, $comme
+ntpub, $synpass, $synpass2)=split(/::/,$value);
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